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Twelve science faculty are being honored for 25 or more years of service to the OSU at its 25 Year Club Dinner on May 22, 2018.

Mathematician Juan Restrepo was named a 2018 Fellow for the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his mathematical and computational modeling of the ocean.

Professor of Mathematics Malgorzata Peszynska is elected President of the Pacific Northwest Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Honors biochemistry/biophysics student Delaney Smith receives the 2018 Goldwater scholarship. She is the only Goldwater Scholar from an Oregon institution this year.

The Department of Physics is one of three universities to receive a national award for improving undergraduate physics education in 2018.

OSU statisticians were awarded a four-year $770K NIH grant to innovate statistical methods to study the human microbiome and its role in human health.

Rebecca Pankow (’11) was featured in New Yorker for her research on building a new generation of robots that work cooperatively with humans.

Mathematician Malgorzata Peszynska was chosen as one of the plenary speakers at the 2017 SIAM Conference.

Oregon State University has named Professor of Physics Janet Tate its 2018 Distinguished Professor.

The National Science Board is honoring distinguished marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco with its 2018 Vannevar Bush Award.

Korvis Professor of Statistics Javier Rojo is the recipient of the 2018 Dr. Etta Z. Falconer Award for Mentoring and Commitment to Diversity.

Three OSU scientists explore the 2017 Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine and the exciting scientific advances they represent at a public lecture April 30, 2018.